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Great Lakes Belted Galloway Newsletter Fall 2013 1
2013 Fall EditionIssue 86 Web Site greatlakesbeltie.com
Calendar of Events
GLBGA Inc. is a cattleman’s breed association dedicated to its members in the promotion of Belted Galloway Cattle.
NewsletterNovember 18-21, 2013
National Belted Galloway Show (NAILE)Louisville, KYContact: Michelle Ogle908-781-5576 [email protected]
November 18, 2013Annual General MeetingLouisville, KYContact: Vic Eggleston 608-220-1091 or [email protected]
December 4-8, 2013Hoosier Beef CongressIndiana State Fairgrounds, IndianapolisContact Doug AbneyPhone: 317 [email protected]
December 6-8, 2013Badger Kick Off Classic, West Allis, WIContact Taylor FritschPhone: 608 [email protected]
January 20 - 22, 2014National Western Galloway Show, Denver
February 4-7, 2014National Cattle Industry Convention, Nashville, TN
Exhibitors: Jay L. Dausman, Countyline
Belties, Pierceton, IN; Matt C Ellerbrock, Hunt Club Farms, Burlington, WI; Hayley S Folk-erts, Bishop Ave Bellties, Wa-verly, IA; Eric Finholdt, Finholdt Farms, Medford, MN; Greg A. Hipple, Sutliff Belties, Solon, IA; Lauren R. Kirschbaum, Kirschbaum Family Farm, Ke-waskum, WI; Mark E. Keller, Oak Valley Farm, Durand, IL; Charles A Landeck, Dickinson Acres, Buffalo, MN; Ashley A Lohmann, Hiland Oaks, Sperry, IA; Jennifer Lohmann, Hiland Oaks, Sperry, IA; Marc Schap-pell, Meadowood Farms LLC, Cazenovia, NY; Kari Simpson, Oreo Acres, McLean, IL; Kaylin
Champions Named At World Beef Expo
Meadowood Yona 90Y, Senior and Grand Champion Female bred and owned by Marc Schappe and Tom Anderson, Meadowood Farms LLC, Cazenovia, NY. She is an October 2011 daughter of Driftwood Wind 15W
Simpson, Oreo Acres, McLean, IL; Ellen Sims, HC Sims, Canonsburg, PA; Audrey M. Wagner, Wagner Belties, Tipton, IA; Kathleen M Wag-ner, Wagner Farms, Tipton, IA; Terry and Julie Willis, Sunnybrook Farms, Belvidere, IL.
FEMALES:Senior and Grand Champion, Meadowood
Yona 90Y, Marc Schappell, Meadowood Farms, LLC; Junior and Reserve Grand, Coun-tyline Billie Jo, Jay L. Dausmann, Countyline Belties.
Junior Calf Champion, HC Sims Zahara 1Z, HC Sims Farms; Res., Sunnybrook Stella, Sunnybrook Farms.
Junior Champion, Countyline Billie Jo, Coun-tyline Belties; Res., Magnolia Trace Trisha’s Zoya, Oak Valley Farm.
Senior Champion, Meadowood Yona 90Y, Meadowood Farms, LLC; Res., Oreo Acres Hope, Oreo Acres.
Cow/Calf Champion, Oak Valley Tulley, Oak Valley Farm; Res., Oak Valley Wendy, Oak Val-ley Farm.
BULLS:Junior and Grand, Oak Valley Zeus, Oak Val-
ley Farm; Calf Champion and Reserve Grand, Sunnybrook Mojito, Sunnybrook Farms.
Oak Valley Zeus, Junior and Grand Champion Bull bred by Jake and Noah Keller, Oak Valley Farms, Durand, IL.He is a March 2012 son of Wayside Valley Houston.
Oak Valley Tulley and Hilltop Farms Atta Girl were named Champion Cow and Calf Pair. The cow is a daughter of An-tietam Porsche and the heifer calf is by Thistle Creek Jack Straw. They were bred by Jake and Noah Keller, Oak Valley Farms, Durand Ill. and exhibited by Jessica Dodge, Ill.
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Officers and Board MembersWeb Site greatlakesbeltie.com
The opinions expressed here are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of GLBGA.
Message From Your President
President• Doug AbneyPhone: (317) [email protected]
Vice President• Terry WillisPhone: (815) [email protected]
Treasurer• Terry EtheridgePhone: (715) [email protected]
Secretary• Kathy KangasPhone: (815) [email protected]
Public Relations Director / Editor• Kathi JurkowskiPhone: (815) [email protected]
Board Members• Mark KellerPhone: (815) [email protected]
• Charles LandeckPhone: (763)[email protected]
• John HammPhone: (608) [email protected]
• Jay DausmanPhone: (574) [email protected]
• Jamie WilkersonPhone: (515) [email protected]
• Cathy Stern Phone: (262) 692-6686 [email protected]
Editor• Kim HussongPhone: (608) [email protected]
It’s hard to believe winter is almost here. But as I sit inside looking out the window, watching it rain, sleet, and snow, I realize winter is quickly approaching, regardless if I am ready or not. So if you are like me, and haven’t winterized your equipment, water tanks, etc. it is time to do so. You don’t want to be hauling water to thirsty animals or dealing with frozen pipes, or damaged equipment when it really gets cold. So take a few min-utes or make time to check the anti-freeze in your tractors and equipment, unhook your garden hoses from your hydrants, drain or empty any unused water tanks, and turn on your tank heaters. The phrase an ounce of pre-vention is equal to a pound of cure, re-ally is true when you are dealing with
frozen pipes or damaged equipment and thirsty cattle.
Today, like many of you, I had the opportunity to deposit a check for my harvested soybeans, which I had been anxiously awaiting to cover many of my farm bills and property taxes. After spending a couple hours paying our bills and taxes, I was pleasantly sur-prised to still have a little money left over in the farm account. Not as much as I would have liked, but never the less there was some left over, So Life is Good. Too bad our federal govern-ment hasn’t figured out how to do this.
Hope to see and catch up with many of you at NAILE.
Doug Abney, PresidentGreat Lakes Belted Galloway Assn.
From time to time people tell me, “Light-en up, it’s just a cow.” Or “That’s a lot of money for “just a cow.” They don’t know the distance traveled, the time spent or the cost involved for “just a cow.” Some of my proudest moments have come with “just a cow”.
Many hours have passed and my only company was “just a cow”, but I did not once feel slighted. Some of my saddest moments have been brought about by “just a cow”, and, in those days of dark-ness, the gentle touch of “just a cow” gave me comfort and reason to overcome the day.
If you too, think it’s “just a cow” then you will probably understand phrases like “just a friend”, “just a sunrise”, or “just a promise”. “Just a cow” brings life into my life the very essence of friendship, trust, and pure unbridled joy. “Just a cow” brings out the compassion and patience that makes me a better person. Because of “just a cow”, I will rise early, stay in the barn for hours and look longingly into the future. So for me, and folks like me, it’s not “just a cow”, but an embodiment of all the hopes and dreams of the future, the
fond memories of the past and the pure enjoyment of the moment. “Just a cow” brings out what’s good in me and divers my thoughts away from the worries of the day.
I hope that someday they can under-stand that it’s not “just a cow”, but the thing that fives me humanity and keeps me from being “just a human”. So the next time you hear the phrase “just a cow”, just smile….because they “just don’t understand.”
Have a good cow day.Author Anonymous
Taken from the internet, printed from www.THEBULLVINE.COM
JustA
Cow ?
The GLBGA has joined the Iowa Beef Breeds Council for 2014. The Association is excited about the benefits for the membership. We will have more details in the next issue of our newsletter or you can visit these websites:http://www.showcattlepage.com/ijbba/index.phphttp://www.iacattlemen.orghttp://www.iabeef.org/
Iowa Beef Expo DatesFebruary 9-16, 2014
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Welcoming These New Members
Gregg & Cathy PauliPauli Farm14425 SummerfieldHanna City, IL [email protected] Ford junior memberFarm: Day Lily Farms4661 N. Elder RoadLarwill, IN [email protected]
Junior Calf Champion, Sunnybrook Mojito, Sunnybrook Farms; Res., Oak Valley Arma-geddon, Oak Valley Farm.
Junior Champion, Oak Valley Zeus, Oak Val-ley Farms; Res., Sunnybrook Cruise, Sunny-brook Farms.
GROUPS:Get Of Sire: Sunnybrook FarmsProduce of Dam: Oak Valley FarmPair of Weanings, Sunnybrook FrmsPair of Yearlings: Finholdt FarmsBreeder’s Herd, Sunnybrook FarmsPremier Breeder and Exhibitor, Sunnybrook
FarmsAPPENDIX:Grand Champion, Sunnybrook Sage,
Kirschbaum Family Farm, Kewaskum, WI; Res. Grand, Wagner Belties Unstuffed, Audrey M. Wagner, Wagner Belties.
STEERS:Grand Champion, Bishop Ave Turbo, Hayley
S. Folkerts; Res. Grand, Driftwood 33 Y, Jake and Noah Keller.
Champion Feeder, Wagner Belties Evil Em-peror Zu, Audrey M. Wagner.
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World Beef Expo Results
The holidays are all about family, friends and good food. Here’s a beef recipe cour-tesy of Wisconsin River Meats. Prime Rib Roast
Ingredients:4 lb. – 13 lb Boneless Prime RibSaltPepperPrime Rib Rub or rub of your choiceDirections:Place prime rib on a cutting board then
hand rub a generous amount of salt first, then pepper and lastly prime rib rub. Ap-ply liberally.
Place prime rib in shallow roasting pan lined with aluminum foil. Place fat side up.
Turn oven to 275 degrees. Depending on size of roast, cook 2 to 4 ½ hours for medium rare. Cook until internal tempera-ture reaches 135 degrees. Remove pan
Accent The HolidaysWith Prime Rib Roast
Jon and Sylvia Bednarski of Sherwood Acres LLC was selected as the inau-gural winner of The Kentucky Leopold Conservation Award which honors Ken-tucky landowner achievement in volun-tary stewardship and management of natural resources. The Bednarski’s were selected from a group of 19 outstanding applicants. Award applicants are judged based on their demonstration of improved resource conditions, innovation, long-term commitment to stewardship, sus-tained economic viability, community and civic leadership and multiple use benefits.
Congratulations To The Bednarskis
John and Sylvia Bednarski, Sherwood Acres LLC, Ky. received The Kentucky Leopold Con-servation Award
onto carving board. Cover with foil and wait until internal temperature reaches 145 degrees (approximately 15 to 20 min-utes). Carve and serve.
You may have seen the GLBGA Show Booth at Field Days or another beltie show recently, but did you know that it’s also for members’ use?
It’s a great advertising tool for you to use without having to invest in a booth for yourself. It’s easy to customize for your farm/business by adding your own photos and signage plus it’s simple and quick to set-up.
The booth is scheduled on a first come, first serve basis so you will need to make a reservation for it.
We are happy to ship it to you or ar-range a meeting place to pick up the booth. The cost of shipping the booth is approximately $100 via UPS but will vary depending on the shipping destination.
Contact Kathi Jurkowski at 815-629-2306 or [email protected]
Promote Your Breed and FarmWith The Belted Galloway Booth
The GLBGA Show Booth is a great advertising tool for members to use.
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LeRoy Kindler and Gayle Cerullo sur-vived the October blizzard out in South Dakota. Their Galloways are just fine. The heifer that LeRoy bought from BYG last year even had a heifer calf during the first part of the storm. Thanks to good herdsmanship their cattle did well. We are happy to hear that they made it through the storm okay but saddened on the thousand of other cattle who weren’t so lucky.
***Patrick Dutter and family have moved
to Aberdeen, SD. However his herd re-mains at his brother’s farm and in his care in Monroe, WI. The Rocking D-3 herd is growing and doing well, too. You’ll see one of his calves in our show string next season.
***Don and Kathy Kangas celebrated
Don’s clean bill of health this past week-end.
Whoo hoo, now that’s something to cel-ebrate! They are happily surprised to find twins calves born out in their field, too.
***Chocolate Belties on a stick………..I’ve got ‘em folks, not a lot but a few
to sell or if you want a herd of them we can order them. Liz Dausman had them made up special for the Pee Wee show kids.
They are perfect for kids, grandkids, to stick in a birthday cake or whatever. If in-terested just drop me a note or call Kathi and/or Liz to order more.
Price: $2.50 each plus postage.***
Have you seen the new directory? Great Lakes directors all took a case home from WBE, so if you didn’t receive one, or request one, let them or Kathi know, we’ll try to get them to you ASAP.
Call your area director, Terry Willis or Kathi Jurkowski.
***Don Grubb (IL) has sold his entire herd.
He and his wife plan to spend more time in their winter home in AZ. Warm winters, no work, sounds like a good plan to me.
***The Boardman Family (Bit Of Bliss
Farm, IA) had one of their Belted Gallo-ways, Wendy, displayed at the Iowa State Fair Avenue of Breeds. Wendy is a four year old cow who had previously been shown at the 2010 Iowa State Fair as a yearling heifer shown in 4-H competition for all other breeds.
***
Have Ya Herd ?
Kudos To Our Kids,Area 5 Juniors who are featured in the BGS 2014 Calendar.
January featured from Double B Ranch, Brenda McClain’s granddaughter, Mad-die Kay. February is the work of Mag-nolia Trace Farms grandson. March is member Chris von Dohrmann, grandson, Koda Michael. July is Angela Abney from Red Barn Farms; September is Jessica Dodge from Hilltop; November is Adam McConnell from Sunnybrook Farm; and December is Emily and Carly Lopata from Klover Rose Farm. Congrats to all. Cal-endars are now for sale.
Notice a not so pleasant, funny smell in your freezer? Not as fresh as it should be? Odors in the freezer may come from food that has been left in the freezer way too long, food that’s not packaged or cov-ered tightly will add odors, too.
There are several ways to clean the in-terior surface of your freezer. Try them one at a time. If you are not satisfied, rinse the freezer surfaces and dry before the next solution.
Don’t mix ingredients in different solu-tion. Baking soda and water may do the job the first time. Use two tablespoons of baking soda to a quart of water.
Still smelly? Next attempt, try vinegar and water. Mix one cup of vinegar to one gallon of water.
Household chorine bleach may be ef-fective. Mix ½ cup of bleach to one gal-lon of water. No matter what solution you end up using, always rinse with clear wa-ter after cleaning.
Still smelly? Leave crumpled newspa-per in the freezer for a time.
Charcoal briquettes or activated char-coal in an open container may help.
If odor-causing moisture has been ab-sorbed by the insulation of the freezer, then you may never get rid of that odor.
We should also bear in mind that there are differences between home and com-mercial refrigerators and freezers.
Most of our home refrigerators are 36 to 40 degrees. (2-4 C)
Home freezers 0 F (-18 C)Butcher’s cooler 32 F (0 C)Butcher’s freezer -25 F (-32 C)
Freezer Burnt Meat? Meat products stored for a long time
in a freezer will start developing inferior taste due to the oxidation of fat. These chemical changes known as “rancidity” occur spontaneously and are triggered by light or oxygen. Meats stored in a freez-er will turn rancid more slowly than meat stored in a frig. Rancid meat is noticeable more with frozen meat than chilled meat because bacteria can spoil meat in a frig well before rancidity begins.
What Is Smelling In The Freezer ?
F The GLBGA has joi The GLBGA has joined the Iowa Beef Breeds Council for 2014. We
Reuben DipThis delicious dip was served at this year’s GLBGA Field Day. Ingredients2 pounds Cooked Corned Beef15 ounces Sour Kraut1 cup Thousand Island Dressing2 cups Shredded Swiss CheeseThinly slice or shred cooked corned beef. In small crock pot combine allingredients mixing to combine. Heat on low until corned beef is hot and cheese is melted. Will serve approximately 15 people as an appetizer. Serve with cocktail rye bread.
Happy ThanksgivingHappy Holidays
and Warn Winter Wishes
To All-The Great Lakes Belted Galloway Association
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Getting To Know These New Members
A life long interest in livestock and agriculture led Trena and Nathan Sell, Gobles, MI to their present operations, Belties’ Barn and Pine Grove Green-house. They live outside Gobles, a small rural town in southwest Michigan about 20 minutes from Kalamazoo, MI.
They farm includes 50 acres which they own, plus the 60 acres which they put up hay.
Pine Grove Greenhouse, which they purchased in 2004 is a wholesale/retail greenhouse. Sells keep quite busy in the winter and spring months, shipping “Proven Winners” branded plants around the midwest.
They couple immediately started buying critters to raise on the original 20 acres after the moved back to the country af-ter living south of Detroit for six years. They started with a goat, chickens, and a miniature donkey. After a couple of years they worked their way up to a horse and their first Belties.
“Our animals are our family!”, Nathan explains. “We do not have any children. We’ve been married for 17 years and have: three dogs, four cats, a horse due
to foal in April, a miniature donkey, and a small but growing Belted Galloway herd. The herd now includes ten cows/heifers, their calves and two Beltie bulls.”
In 2006 the Sells traveled five miles away from home to Vance and Gladys Kincaid, Rolling Acres Farm, to purchas their first Beltie heifer.
“I grew up on a small farm raising and showing beef cattle, mostly Simmentals”, Nathan relates. “I’ve always thought Bel-ties were cool looking, but I decided to raise them after much research. The breed’s ability to convert most any forage into “heart healthy” beef is what finally sold me on them. Trena liked the fact that they are polled and that they have such a gentle nature, too.”
“We are currently happy with our herd size”, he continues. “As pasture land becomes available, we would increase our herd size. If necessary, we will sell our Belties as grass fed beef, but as of yet, we have sold everything as breed-ing stock. As much as Trena is dreading it, we will have our first beef steer ready next fall.”
They Sells’ good connections in the
Belties’ Barn
Belted Galloway Society have proven quite beneficial in selling as well as buy-ing animals. So far they have been able to sell most everything by word of mouth.
Trena and Nathan met at the Van Bu-ren County Youth Fair when they were 15 years old. They would talk each year, but Trena showed horses and Nathan hogs and cattle. Since Trena was a horse girl, Nathan was not about to date her.
When she was 17, Trena and her girl-friend raised a couple of hogs and brought them to the fair.
Nathan and his buddy decided ‘these girls must not be so bad after all’! Trene and Nathan married two years later and the rest is history.
Trena and Nathan Sell, Belties’ Barn, Gobles, MI.
Trena and Nathan Sell, Belties’ Barn, Gobles, MI started their herd in 2006 with a heifer from Vance and Gladys Kincaid, Rolling Acres Farm
Sharon and George Adams, Aavalon Farm, Palestine, Texas
Aavalon FarmThe 87 cross-fenced acre farm that
began 8 years ago as a continuation of Adams ranching which started in the late 1800’s, the first “A” in Aavalon. “Ava” in Aavalon came because Ava is our grand-daughter. The name was completed be-cause Aavalon was a mystic realm in King Arthur’s folklore. Our first bull “Ivan-hoe” roamed our pastures and woods and as he appeared in morning fog, our mystic realm was a reality” states George Adams, Aavalon Farm, Palestine. Texas.
The Farm, located in the community of Springfield, Texas in the rolling hills of East Texas. Sharon and George have
one child and one grandchild Disposition and size were the key fac-
tors in the Adams family selecting Belted Galloway cattle for their farm.. Sharon had not been around beef cows and it was very important that she be safe as she has been. It is sheer joy to watch the Belties protect her.
The Adams currently have 30 plus Belties, down from their high of 60 plus primarily from selling starter herds. The have one breeding bull at the farm, Ston-esthrow Whitehall, the 2010 Show Bull of the Year, three young bulls in develop-ment, and two bulls leased for startup, Starlite Ivanhoe and Aavalon Farm the Petester, a son of Linetree Pistol Pete. Sadly, we lost Antietam Special Edition this past year.
The major goals for Adams and the Avvalon herd is to bring into Texas and develop quality genetics producing Bel-ties that meet breed standards. The cattle
Stonesthrow Whitehall, 2010 Show Bull of the Year, makes his home at Aavalon Farm, Pal-estine, Texasare pasture fed for our cow calf operation, show heifers, developing bulls (we do not show bulls) and steers for processing. Our cattle are always on grass with qual-ity hay and fed as needed. No urea, no added hormones, no antibiotics in feed and limited molasses. It has taken more than five years to develop Texas feeding protocols with the help of an animal nutri-
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Winter is just a few pages away on the calendar. With the change in season and forages entering dormancy comes the need to pay closer attention to your sup-plementation strategy to ensure cows do not lose body condition.
The perennial question of “How can you keep a cow from losing condition without overfeeding her?” can be answered fairly accurately by looking at the manure pat.
When combined with other estimates such as forage availability and quality, a diet can be quickly changed to meet the cow’s nutrient requirements rather than waiting for body condition to fall low enough that the producer will notice a change.
Manure scoring can indicate the quality of nutrition a cow has had in the past one to three days, while body condition score will indicate the nutritional history of the past several weeks to months.
Manure is scored on a 1 to 5 basis, with a score of 1 being very fluid and 5 being
extremely dry and s e g -men ted . The next few para-g r a p h s will de-tail each score and
associated diet quality.Reference photographs have been in-
cluded with approximate levels of dietary protein and energy (TDN) listed.
A manure score of 1 is of cream soup consistency. It can indicate a sick animal or a highly digestible ration that contains
excess protein, carbohydrates or miner-als, and low fiber. The addition of hay will slow down the rate of passage and thick-en the manure.
Manure that will score a 2 doesn’t stack; the pat is usually less than 1 inch thick and will lack consistent form. This manure has the consistency of cake batter.
Excess protein, carbohydrates and low fiber characterize the diets that produce this manure.
Rate of passage is very high, and add-ing hay to this diet will slow it down to al-low for more absorption in the intestinal tract.
Manure score 3 is ideal and will typi-cally start to take on a normal pat form.
T h e consistency will be similar to thick pan-cake batter. It will exhibit a slight divot in the middle.
The pat will be deeper than a score 2 pat, but will not stack.
This diet is not lacking nutritionally, yet is not in excess for the cow and her physi-ological stage.
Score 4 manure is thick and starting to become somewhat deeper, yet is not stacking.
The consistency of the manure will be equivalent to peanut butter.
Scoring Manureby Robert S. Wells, Ph.D., PAS, Livestock Consultant, Noble Foundation
This ma-nure in-dicates a lack of de-g radab le r u m e n p r o t e i n , e x c e s s low-quality
fiber or not enough carbohydrates in the diet.
Supplementation of additional protein with high rumen-degradable protein can increase total diet digestibility.
Cottonseed meal and soybean meal are excellent sources of this type of protein.
The highest and least-desirable score is 5. This manure is firm and stacks over 2 inches in height.
It will also have clearly defined seg-ments and is very dry. This manure in-dicates the cow is eating a poor-quality forage diet that is inadequate for protein and carbohydrates, and high in low-qual-ity fiber.
Rate of passage has slowed down to the point that excess water has been re-absorbed in the intestines. The rancher will need to consider additional supple-mentation to meet the cow’s protein and energy requirements.
Cattle have to be in good health for manure scoring to be accurate. Manure scoring is a valuable tool to determine the quality of nutrition the cow has recently consumed and can be used effectively to adjust supplementation to prevent loss of body condition.
This originally appeared in the Noble Foundation’s Ag News and Views news-letter.
Score 2
Score 4
Score 3
The new Great Lakes Belted Galloway Association Membership Directory and Semen Catalog is being mailed to mem-bers now. It’s a beautiful, newly revised book that is both educational and infor-mative. A great advertising tool that you will want to hang on to for future refer-ence. Thanks to all our faithful advertis-ers. This is what Great Lakes can do for you and your herd!
If you haven’t received your directory yet, please contact Kathi Jurkowski at 815-629-2306 or [email protected].
The GLBGA Membership Directory Is Now Available
The 2014 Beltie Calendars
Contact Kathi JurkowskiPhone:
815-629-2306Email:
Great Lakes Belted Galloway Newsletter Fall 2013 7
STREMMING’S WALNUT HILL FARMS
Dick & Cathy StremmingRR1, Box 176Strasburg, IL 62465Phone 217-644-3015Email: [email protected]
Belted Galloways
Registered Black & DunBelted Galloways For Sale
. . . Beef and Pork Processing . . .
Wisconsin River Meats
John Hamm
Wisconsin River Brands, Inc.N5340 Highway HHMauston, WI 53948
608 847-7413www.wisconsinrivermeats.com
Experienced working with direct marketers and private labeling.
Large selection of our ownWisconsin Sausage.
Belted Galloway meat available. Buying quality Belted Galloway Steers
in WisconsinBelted Galloway
Show Steers and Heifers
AVALONFARM
1059 An C. R. 468 • Palestine, Texas 75803903 549-2036 • Fax 903 549-2286
www.aavalonfarm.com • [email protected]
Focused on Belted Galloway Cattle and Polled Hair Sheep
George Adams Sharon Adams
Jerry and Kathi Jurkowski 5418 Yale Bridge Road815.629.2306 - [email protected] Rockton, IL 61072
Great Gift IdeaLands’ End Merchandise With Great Lakes Belted Galloway
This is a Great Lakes logo done up by Lands’ End. Great Lakes has paid for the set up fees. You will just be charged a very small fee for embroidery work, like $5.00. You can put this logo on anything at Lands’ End.
You can order anything, even sale items, but go through [email protected] or call 800 338-2000 Logo Number: 1018218-W
tionist and his wife who happen to own our local feed store (26 miles from the farm), George explains. They cull bad disposi-tions and any extra white.
The Adams advertise in local, regional and national publica-tions in addition to our Breeder listing in the Belted Galloway website and our ads in the Great Lakes Semen and Member Directory. They show for networking and to have fun, always expecting to place 7th in a 5 cow class lets us enjoy Beltie owners and supporters. Word of mouth sells all the beef we can produce.
“Our Belties are all mental therapists and perform a calming ritual every day. We have a passion for the breed and a hunger for quality Beltie genetic markers (EPD’s)”. concludes George.
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Great Lakes would like to generate more interest and exposure for Belties on our website and Face-book page. To do this, we have a “My Favorite Bel-tie Picture” photography contest. The only require-ments are that...
1) There must be at least one Belted Galloway in the photo.
2) The photo must be taken by you or of you. (Not from the internet or other source)
During the first month of each quarter (Jan, April, July, Oct), email your favorite Beltie photo to Jill Messmer, who is coordinating the contest. At the beginning of the second month of the quarter (Feb, May, Aug, Nov), the photos that were submitted dur-ing the previous month will be posted on to the Great Lakes Belted Galloway Association Facebook Page. Everyone will have that month to vote for their favor-ite photos by using the “like” feature on Facebook. In the first week of the third month in the quarter, a winner will be determined based on the most “likes” for the picture. (If necessary, ties will be broken by the GLBGA Facebook Administrator Committee.) Once we have a winner, Jill will gather a short story about the person/farm that took the picture and what
Social Media Enhances Beltie Photography Contestthe picture pertains to. The winner will be featured on our Facebook page, website, and in our next newsletter. The winning photo will replace the CJ Brown painting of Belties on the back of the newslet-ter for that quarter. We will reset at the start of the next quarter and do it all over again, and new photos or photos that did not win may be re-submitted.
We hope this will get some great pictures of Belties as well as some exposure for Belties, Great Lakes, and the people involved in the photos. Even if you don’t submit a photo, remember to go to Facebook.com and search “Great Lakes Belted Galloway As-sociation” and “like” us and “like” your favorite pho-tos!
Submit your digital photo to [email protected] Put “Beltie Photo Contest” in the subject line. Please include your name, your farm’s name, and a contact phone number.
Kim Hussong, EditorGLBGA Newsletter13845 W Bullard RoadEvansville, WI 53536
The winner of the first “My Favorite Beltie” Photography Contest is Jessica Dodge with her Fall Beltie picture. Congratulations.
Thank you to all the other photographers that submitted photos. And thank you to all that went to the website and voted.
